> COMPATIBILITY > Previous versions of the chown utility used the dot (``.'') > character to distinguish the group name. Begining with FreeBSD > 4.0, this has been changed to be a colon (``:'') character so that > user and group names may contain the dot character.
Hum... I think I should change this text slightly. I should not refer to chown(8) so strongly. It's on my list now. :-) -- -- David (obr...@nuxi.com -or- obr...@freebsd.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message